Metapost: Cross-referenced comments of the week!
Hey kids! I’ve frequently gotten requests to link the comments of the week to the strip they refer to, so as to provide a richer context for their snark. I’ve done so this week, at least for those that referred to strips I have on my site, and hope to do so in the future, providing it doesn’t turn into an enormous pain in the ass. Anyway, here’s this week’s to comment:
“‘Curious Conclusions’ sounds like the kind of board game Mary Worth would play on a Saturday night with a few friends, a mug of cocoa, and some good old-fashioned apple crumble. The loser, of course, would be immolated.” –Tats
And the hilarious runners-up:
“Dear Amazing Spider-Man ghost-writer and artist: You know what would make it a lot easier for me to believe that the setting is ‘night — in the shadow of the Los Angeles Coliseum’? If it were actually night-time in the picture. Or if the Coliseum cast a shadow, for that matter.” –GG
“Amazing how Liz manages to regress at an alarming rate, while simultaneously Ellie-aging in her appearance. By September, she’ll look to all the world like a 120-year-old wrinkled, bed-ridden crone, but she’ll really be, in fact, a fetus verging on embryo status. And then the abortion and euthanasia debates will really intersect!” –Mibbitmaker
“The level of detail in Slylock Fox is both astonishing and completely pointless. If the purpose of comic art is to tell a story, the story here is one of ritalin. Not enough ritalin.” –Proteus
“I love Ted bluing out in that panel. It’s like Ted is Patrick Swayze, and he’s finally walking into the light as Sally Forth, tears in her eyes, whispers ‘Ditto,’ and then drops her eyes back down into that half-lidded smirk I hate so goddamn much.” –jake!
“Note the frisson between Max Mouse and Tiffany Fox, their eyes locked in mutual fascination. (‘How does one go down a one-way street without breaking the law?’ Max asks suggestively, his meaning barely coded.)” –Old Bean
“I can’t wait until the end of this thrilling ‘bird-strike’ plot line when Mark punches out a 767.” –reader-who-posts
“Mary Worth has been at basically the same pace as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, she talked to a guy by the pool for two years.” –Yitzchok
“Margo didn’t try. There, I said it.” –Montag
“And in the department of unreasonable expectations, my leg is bigger than Cherry’s waist. She must have sold her internal organs on the black market.” –fizzy logic
“You can tell their love is unpure and evil since the little hearts above their heads are black. Which kind of goes without saying since this is Marvin, which itself is little more than a montage of the unholy and repugnant.” –Potato
“I was just looking at Jughead, and thinking about how I always think he’s going to grow up to be Dagwood. Then I thought how maybe he’s going to grow up to be the Joker. Either way, these are the best years of his life.” –Phil
“Honestly, how many people did ‘Snuffy’ Smith have to kill to earn that name?” –Harold
“That’s some smooth pillow talk [Darrin]’s got there. Apart from the fact that it’s so indirect it takes a flow chart to figure out what he means, I like the way it manages to work fraudulent medical research, obesity and heart disease into the act of telling someone she’s hot.” –Albtraum
“After reading the 4/26 Apartment 3-G, I realized I loved Margo. I love her for doing all that my id desires and all that my superego thwarts. She’s a finger-quoting, Tommie-bashing, and probably embezzling marvel, since these balloon and streamer galas suggests some money is being pocketed somewhere.” –MsChicken
“I wish the Dennis the Menace artist would put as much time into Dennis’ poor hands (typically rendered as flippers) as he does into Mr. Wilson’s ear. It’s like, of course Dennis is menacing, he’s fuckin’ part dolphin.” –RaJ
“FW: ‘Now why wouldn’t I think you’re sexy, when you look exactly like me but with long hair?’” –Squawk
“Is it possible for someone with facial hair in Mark Trail to NOT make everything sound sinister? Replacing an old, obsolete building with a new one is pretty sensible, but it reads like they’re going to toss newborn babies into jet engines.” –Citric
“400 years / 20 Phantoms = 20-year crime-fighting careers. What do the old Phantoms do during their 30-year retirement? Design pants, perhaps?” –Dean Booth
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Doug Puthoff
April 29th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
I wonder if Mr. Avery has a wife–and a daughter named Sylvia.
Stuart P. Bentley
April 29th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Holy shit Josh, GIVE US TIME TO READ THE LAST ONE BEFORE YOU GO POSTING COTW
Uncle Lumpy
April 29th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
F5. . .F5. . .F5 Oh, Hey!
Poteet
April 29th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Congratulations to Tats and all the other snarky float riders!
Doug Puthoff
April 29th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
MW–Von is just dying to get tbe Charterstone Intervention Squad after him. Too bad Etta has gone; she could save him a quart of whiskey and a trip off a cliff.
Tats
April 29th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Yaaaay. After two weeks’ absence from the charts I’m back with a vengeance. I’m much like Kylie Minogue in that regard.
Do the locomotion, indeed.
Moon Mullins
April 29th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Congrats to all the clever snarkers — all very worthy and hilarious!
And of course, woe to me, for being shut out yet again.
Every week I rush breathlessly to the COTW, holding my lotto ticket. Then the COTWs are 5, 14, 22, 28, 41 and mega number 35, but my ticket has pi, square root of 7, infinity plus one, googol, -84, and mega number “blue”.
And now it’s off for a vacation on Wednesday, meaning no possibility of winning till likely at least June (likely – HAH! When pigs fly!)
SecretMargo
April 29th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Congrats to everyone, but I must mention that Old Bean’s comment made me lose it all over again. So, so funny. (Or is it the whippets talking?)
Tats
April 29th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Proteus and Montag’s comments almost made me die laughing.
reader-who-posts
April 29th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Only one question from the COTW runners-up, for Phil…what’s wrong with being Dagwood? He’s got a wife with a hot bod, all the sandwiches he wants to eat, and a carpool that seemingly never makes him drive to work. There are worse fates in life – for example he could grow up to be Funky Winkerbean and experience a horrific death.
fizzy logic
April 29th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Yay! I’m on the parade float with the runners up! (Runner ups?) I’m so happy – thanks, Josh! (And Josh, thanks for not cross-referencing a picture that shows the actual size of my leg w/r/t my comment).
PeteMoss
April 29th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
funnyfunnyfunnyfunnystuff. keepupthegoodsnarkin’.
fizzy logic
April 29th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
And congrats to all you funny, funny people!
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 29th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Vis-a-vis the cross-referencing: it could, in fact, turn out to be a tremendous pain in the ass. Kudos for giving it the old college try, though.
Congrats to the kickin’ commentators.
Octal
April 29th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
I’ve frequently gotten requests to link the comments of the week to the strip they refer to, so as to provide a richer context for their snark. I’ve done so this week, at least for those that referred to strips I have on my site, and hope to do so in the future, providing it doesn’t turn into an enormous pain in the ass.
Woohoo! Thanks! :D
RaJ
April 29th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Yay!
No, but seriously: I haven’t been this flattered since Josh joined my Mary Worth facebook group.
mumbles
April 30th, 2007 at 12:08 am
Yay to all commenters! Funny stuff.
(DT)GT: I swear I’ve seen that kid Jim Gross before….oh yes, didn’t he start for the Yankees this weekend?
FOOB: The groundwork is being set for Candace, the best friend we haven’t seen in years, to helpfully bring up Granthony while Liz is crying in her milkshake. Candace in any other universe would what would be called “the saboteur ‘friend’.” In FOOBiverse, she is dea ex machina.
One or more of you guys is going to no doubt say something wonderfully witty about Mr. and Mrs. Trail’s longevity and prowess…I’m too shocked to even try something half-assed.
Weasel Boy
April 30th, 2007 at 12:15 am
I always look forward to Sunday’s COTW post; I don’t always make through all the comments, so there’s usually a few I hadn’t seen the first time around. Congrats to Tats, and a tip o’ the hat to Albtraum’s FW comment. Good stuff.
Mibbitmaker
April 30th, 2007 at 12:21 am
Monday FOOB:
“We were so young”?? It’s like Liz is actually saying, “Yeah, C’mon, you lousy Curmudgeons, bring it on! Give it yer best shot!”
Liz, I wouldn’t be so cocky if I were you. I got a COTW Runner-up on your de-aging issues, missy!
btw, Candace, long time no see. This strip’s really been falling apart since you left. Won’t be long before Liz’ll be Funky Winkerbeaning you in this little conversation, trust me.
Mibbitmaker
April 30th, 2007 at 12:41 am
More Monday:
FC: No, Billy. Actually, your pencil just writes in plaid as well as dark gray.
Doonesbury and Mutts: Looks like Preachy Week has begun! A whole week of the former dealing out smug I-Told-you-sos and the latter once again chucking the charm for another animal rights crusade… and Mallard Fillmore just existing.
FW: The ol’ side-step just when we get sooo close on Darrin discovering his real birthmother. Just a maddening delay tactic, though, seeing which lead character is featured today.
(DT)GT: (panel 2)… Because Jim Gross is……. a WIIILD and CRAZYGUY!!!
A3G: And that’s not all Alan’s going to put LuAnn out of forever! I take back my comparison of her storyline to Susan and the envelopes on “Seinfeld”; Larry David is a less sadistic writer of darkness than Shulock! (Though, oddly enough, I don’t mind it as much here as I did on that TV show)
Trilobite
April 30th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Monday:
A3G: Alan realized that his stylish “inoffensive 60’s folk minstrel” look wasn’t fitting in on the mean streets of New York City, or maybe a hobo just threw up on that baby blue V-neck sweater he was wearing a moment ago. Either way, I applaud the wardrobe change: I was constantly worrying that he was going to break out into a rousing chorus of “Tom Dooley” or “If I Had a Hammer.”
Mark Trail: Cue up the funky 70s porno music, ’cause it looks like all that sexy frog talk on Sunday just primed the pump for Mr. Trail. I know, I know, that’s a disturbing enough thought for a Monday morning…but as a special bonus, I’d like you all to take a moment and realize that every single word of their dirty talk/moaning/whatever will in fact be said by their bedroom furniture.
Mibbitmaker
April 30th, 2007 at 1:05 am
More Monday:
SForth: Oh, Sally would, Ted; Sally would. Anyway, looks like we won’t have to worry about Ted or Sally meeting any gruesone deaths in the next couple of months. I wish FW could show us the same courtesy – often!
Cranky: Well, it’s not Archie or Spooky or Hot Stuff or Sad Sack or Popeye or The Flintstones or Mad or Josie or other Hanna-Barbera characters Charlton Comics did or The Pink Panther or Looney Tunes…… so, big deal!
JP: Sooooo, it’s one of those Donald Trump-like situations, eh?
MT: Well, the speech balloons are pointing the right way, but alot of them are in the wrong panel!
MW: Caption in the 3rd, unseen, panel: “He’s no fun, he fell right over!” (based on panel one)
RMMD: This is actually much funnier than my own imagined stalling scenario a few posts back. And btw, Hugh: odd time to be commenting on the Bush administration!
Canaduck
April 30th, 2007 at 1:32 am
I’ve done so this week, at least for those that referred to strips I have on my site, and hope to do so in the future, providing it doesn’t turn into an enormous pain in the ass.
I never asked you to do this, but I’m really glad you did. It made understanding some of the COTW a lot easier. Thanks a lot!!
Jack Parsons
April 30th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Trilobite – 21 – Mark Trail -
My nomination for next COTW.
Jack Parsons
April 30th, 2007 at 2:40 am
As to talking from inappropriate directions, in Against The Grain a man hires a mistress who is a world-class ventriloquist. Her job is to talk dirty from every conceivable object in the room during sex.
This book is the bible for we who wish to be incredibly rich degenerates. Highly recommended. One of the Revered Ancient Texts of the Xurrealists.
dreadedcandiru2
April 30th, 2007 at 5:53 am
#17. You hit the nail right on the head, there mumbles. Poor desperate, needy old maid Liz who’s twenty-five (and practically dead) needs a man to support her in her declining years. Candace will bring up Anthony. An apt metaphor, BTW, because contemplating him makes me want to bring up my corn flakes into a toilet. Having successfully maneuvered her ‘friend’ into Blandthony’s basement cage’o'love, Candace and Rudy can live smugly ever after laughing at the thought of the pathetic little wuss who thought she was all washed up when everyone else was just getting started.
John C Fremont
April 30th, 2007 at 6:02 am
MT – Aww. Mark was just about to say “I got your nose!” before Cherry interrupted. Or maybe that’s just what they call foreplay in Lost Forest.
Wacka-cha-wacka…
MW – Wow, Vera’s – scary!
Doodles – I only read Doodles when it’s posted here. Thanks, Josh! That was unbelievable. I’m curious to see how kids fill in the missing, uh, lion section.
dreadedcandiru2
April 30th, 2007 at 6:08 am
LuAnn: I just remembered someone else who needs a good slap in the mouth: that backstabbing, airhead cheerleader. I’m pretty sure most REAL cheerleaders look at Miss Thang and wince in disgust.
FW: We leave Darin and his ultra-furtive quest to find his birth parents to a look at his biological mother, Lisa. She’s at the accupuncturist today as we settle in for a touching look at chronic pain amongst cancer survivors.
BC/ Wizard of Id: The sad thing is that when they finally exhaust the material Hart produced when he was alive and start producing his strips via computer, we won’t be able to tell.
DT: The police continue their long tradition of callous sang-froid. It matters not a whit some desperate idiot died as a result of their own madness; the important thing is the blasted diamond. The only thing upsetting Tracy is that the Supreme Court will no longer allow him to blow enormous holes in people’s heads with his sidearm.
smacky
April 30th, 2007 at 6:49 am
DT: Why is Dick Tracy giving a thumbs-down in panel two? Has killing the bad guy gotten so routine he now rates their deaths, and decided that Queenie diving headfirst into the exhaust pipe of a tug boat just doesn’t thrill him like it used to?
Damn, Dick. Take a week or two of vacation and get your joy in the horrible demise of others back.
Dean Booth (Tyler Bid Page)
April 30th, 2007 at 7:19 am
“I’m on the parade float with the runners up!”
* smiles *
* waves *
* throws candy *
Montag
April 30th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Hey, finally my breakthrough comment! Woo-hoo! Thanks, Josh. And thanks, Tats (#9.)
blueblaze
April 30th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Is Billy completely incapable of taking responsibility for his own actions? “My eraser overdid it.”
Sure, Billy. It’s all the eraser’s fault. What do you say at the trial – “My knife overdid it”?
Motorposus
April 30th, 2007 at 7:23 am
#6: Congrats, Tats! In my mind, you’re every bit the global pop minx.
True Fable
April 30th, 2007 at 7:25 am
MT Jack Elrod shouts out that Mark is NOT gay! If Monday’s strip isn’t aimed directly at the Curmudgeon Clubhouse, I’d be surprised.
But let’s give props to our man Mark; at least he’s responding to his wife’s Siren call, unlike Sam Driver and Rex Morgan. Er, and their responses to their respective wives.
FBoFW Liz had to wear her hair down for this occasion, since Candace would not have recognized her in her Ugly Schoolmarm Bun and old lady Elly glasses. Cue Anthony Caineintheass.
DT No mention as to the loss of life; is the jewel okay? Dick’s squad is one tough mean bunch of s.o.b.’s.
FW Is Funky Winkerbean’s town located on top of an old toxic dump the EPA skipped? There’s not a single healthy or unfuckedup human in town. I’ll bet even the dentist has a hard luck story but oh my word I don’t want to see or hear it.
S4th Ted is a Plugger.
MW I’ve got to do a parody with this strip. Godzilla on a rampage comes to mind.
FC Later, Billy breaks down and confesses that he ate that hole in the paper. He needed roughage but was afraid to mention such a word to his crazed parents.
DtM Minus ten points from MenaceWatch2007; you aren’t a menace, you’re just a plain old cheat.
Motorposus
April 30th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Sunday’s FC: It’s nice that hugs are “recommended for ages 1 to 100 and up!” That means Grandma gets one too.
commodorejohn
April 30th, 2007 at 7:43 am
FOOB – Stiflingly boring, but at least it’s not pissing me off the way it usually does.
insolenttomato
April 30th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Dang! Sorry to post this one twice; the hamster powering my laptop didn’t load the most recent post so I didn’t see the COTW coronation until now. Mazel tov to one and all! Anyway, regarding Doodles (and I still cannot believe nobody has commented on this), the Benedict Arnold/lion’s pose makes me really wonder exactly HOW the koala wound up inside him. His full-on bending over, combined with his saucy expression, doesn’t so much say “lying lion†or “how shall I prepare this tasty little morsel†or even “satisfying dump” so much as it says “power bottom.†Oh la la!
Dean Booth (Tyler Bid Page)
April 30th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Doodles: I can guess what’s missing from the lion. It’s the same thing that missing from the guy’s hand.
MT, panel 2: Perhaps Mark is turning on Stepford wife Cherry’s love switch. Take note Gary Dent: the Power o’ the Point can be used for love as well as war.
#21. Trilobite, I can think of no better time for genitalia to speak their minds. The furniture can just cheer them on.
calico
April 30th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Congrats all Meta-listers!
This week in comixland, it’s the Battle of the Blondes!
Who can be the dorkiest? The sexiest? The most clueless? The outright stupidest?
Between Darin and Jess, Alan, Von, Vera, Liz and now naturally golden-locked Candace, it’s gonna be a touch, close, NASCAR-like finish to this competition.
MT – hammer that point home until it bleeds, Jack Elrod.
Okay, okay, so Mark isn’t ALL gay. That’s fine with me, as long as you keep up the occasional blasts of animal and reptilian porn.
Hogen Mogen
April 30th, 2007 at 8:08 am
TDIET: There is absolutely no correlation here, and therefore no irony.
Spidey: After waiting for like a week and a half, Spidey finally goes inside and meets that fat guy Kordok or Kordak or Kodak Instamatic or something and the yawns keep-a comin’!
Phantom: Remembers some promise he made a year ago his time, which is at least a decade our time. Good thing those drums reminded the Ghost-who-makes-promises. Other people just use their PDA’s, but hey, whatever works for ya.
Oh happy happy day! My local rag dropped BC and Id because of the demise of Mr. J. Hart, citing the fact that he’s dead. We do, however, continue to run Dennis the Slightly Aggressive Scampy Kid, even though Hank Ketcham has been in similar condition for years.
Gil Thorp: GT has been called a lot of things. Whenever I read it, I can’t help but hear Jerry Seinfeld’s voice in my head saying “Who are these people?”
Foob: I’m not sure I get it. Is it the classic, patented, signature Foobian-enormous-stretch-for-a-joke-that-isn’t-funny? Yes, they’re younger than the oldster that happens to be walking in the foreground. But, to me, they’re college grads (university grads in Canada), and they’re living the lives of responsible adults, like supporting themselves, living independently of parents, entering serious relationships, etc. They’re not kids anymore. To look back on when they were less responsible and say “We were such kids then” isn’t really ironic or disingenous or odd in any way. But I’m glad that Lynn Johnston spent some time and let us know about Candace’s hair color choices. Maybe tomorrow the punchline could be that Liz suggests some highlights, but Candace insists that she has split ends and doesn’t want them highlighted… !!!! ha ha haha!
gh
April 30th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Wow. All y’alls was busy over the weekend. Looks like there’s plenty to catch up on, but before that, I just couldn’t get Live at Leeds out of my head this weekend, and so I offer up an homage to Rex Morgan, Drama Queen.
Avery tries to put me d-down (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
Just ‘cause I drive him around (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
June’s become an awful sc-sc-scold (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
I hope she dies before I get old (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
This is my indignation
This is my indignation, baby
Why don’t you all f-fade away (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
I’m married, dammit, I’m not g-g-gay (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
I’m not suggestin’ anal p-p-penetration (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
I’m just talkin’ ’bout my i-i-i- indignation (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
This is my indignation
This is my indignation, baby
Why don’t you all f-fade away (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
I’m married, dammit, I’m not g-g-gay (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
I’m not suggestin’ anal p-p-penetration (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
I’m just talkin’ ’bout my i-i-i- indignation (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
This is my indignation
This is my indignation, baby
Avery tries to put me d-down (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
Just ‘cause I drive him around (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
June’s become an awful sc-sc-scold (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
I hope she dies before I get old (Talkin’ ’bout my indignation)
This is my indignation
This is my indignation, baby
calico
April 30th, 2007 at 8:17 am
M & S / S & M – Hey Kidz! You too can draw your very own Big Cat schlong! Right after you get that dumbass Koala out of that sulfuric acid hell it seems to masochistically crave almost every week, of course.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 30th, 2007 at 8:20 am
4/30
Marvin: Okay, what parent is responsible for Marvin’s girlfriend’s (*shudder*) extreme baby makeover? Must have cost a bit of money, plus a soul or two.
Lockhorns: Love hurts. Even when deadened by decades of marriage, it still stings.
A3G: When Alan says he’s going to put Luann out of his head forever, how “forever” is he talking about? Man, the death toll could just keep climbin’.
FW: And what crippling illness shall we learn this week?
MW: And then Von’s brains were eaten by the Charterstone zombies. The end.
H&J: A dull and predictable punchline. Here’s a fix. Arrange the panels and respective thought balloons in this order’ 3. 4. 1. 2. Then replace “Barack Obama” with “Wayne Brady.” It’s not much, but it’s something.
DtM: Dennis’s grandpa is the white Clambake!
(DT)GT: “Don’t forget–I’m always wild,” he said with a coy glove over his mouth. Ah the coyness of young love.
Luann: Juicier? It’s really not. It’s some dry scrap that fell behind your stove.
Big Dog: This one is a lot of fun to see if you pretend you don’t speak English. My scenario: on seeing a huge dog leaving the tattoo parlor, Dottie and Phil (yes, they have names) get a strong craving to have doggystyle sex. You can see them start to assume the position.
Widdle Jeffy
April 30th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Sunday’s FC, hugs are only good for 1 to 100+???
I guess that explains a lot about the Keane spawn, they were never held as babies. They don’t have a feeling for human contact.
It is the main reason they can jump ugly on poor jeffy all the time.
TurtleBoy
April 30th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Congrats, Meistersnarker! I’d missed some of the best of these in the flood of comments that awaited me on my return to town earlier this week. (reader-who-posts’s MT riff was an especially good one.)
Meanwhile, in today’s TDIET, I’m getting monstrous Dr. Strangelove von Klutz vibes from Yorick’s pop in Panel 2: “Young Mister Yorick, how long will it take?”
O’Fogeyette
April 30th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Poteet–hope you’re feeling better! And COTW float-riders, hearty congratulations!
41 gh: Excellent!
I think I’ve caught Poteet’s stomach upset. Nope, it’s just the irony, the bitter, bitter irony in today’s FOOB.
Dingo
April 30th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Congratulations to Tats for a very funny comment I missed the first time! Also, to all of the bridesmaids and groomsmen. Funny, indeed!
I’ll just sit here in the back of the church, running the camcorder.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 30th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Ted Forth in “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fey Yuppie.”
stinky pete
April 30th, 2007 at 8:48 am
My 18 year old, who is getting ready for prom & high school graduation, has lately been heard to make comments like those in the last panel of FOOB. I’ve learned to just smile, nod, and say “yep.â€
Old Bean
April 30th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Lawks.
Thanks for the blog, Josh. You and your minions crack me up. Glad I stumbled across it.
gh
April 30th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Congrats, Tats! I missed that one the first time around — well-played. And fizzy logic: I had that one tagged for a spot on the float. Get yourself a nickel candy bar!
Don’t know what to bring to the dance, except to mention — in case no one else did — that it was a three fish skeleton weekend in SlyFox: one Saturday and two yesterday. I hope everyone had a three fish skeleton weekend! I know I did!
Dingo
April 30th, 2007 at 8:56 am
gh, sometime down the road, a newbie is going to be questioning why we all write the way we do (foob, Cap’n Kangaroo, FQM) and “three fish skeleton weekend” should be among them. That’s rich.
Ribinin
April 30th, 2007 at 9:02 am
#40 Hogen Mogen – RE: foob “they’re living the lives of responsible adults, like supporting themselves, living independently of parents, entering serious relationships, etc.”
Which of these is Liz doing exactly? Even close to doing?
calico
April 30th, 2007 at 9:09 am
#44 – Oh Jesus, here comes the next Unabomber.
#51 – is that kinda like 3 Dog Night, or 12 Dog night in Dag’s case the other eve?
Ran
April 30th, 2007 at 9:10 am
MW: Odd. The pictures in every room of charterstone show the same scene. Its a clue, I’m sure of it, somehow it will lead Von to discover the secret to the Charterstone Zombie Menace and help him save his sister from the evil clutches of Frau Worthinstein!
Dingo
April 30th, 2007 at 9:12 am
WE DID IT!!! The votes are in and Starved Rock State Park was chosen the “wonder” for northern Illinois! Thank you, all, for helping me.
Yesterday, my parents took John (mi novio) and I to the lodge for brunch as an early birthday gift since I’ll be interviewing out in Reno that weekend. Twenty years ago, I could go to the park and be among a handful of people visiting. After brunch, John and I went hiking and heard people speaking in English, Polish, Spanish, Chinese… it’s great to see the park being enjoyed again and by so many.
The other winners:
Chicago: Wrigley Field
Chicagoland: Baha’i House of Worship
Northern: Starved Rock State Park
Central: Allerton Park and Retreat Center
Western: Black Hawk State Historic Site
Southern: Rend Lake
Southwest: Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Byway
Thanks again! I still stand by the offer to grill out if you’re in the area (and I’m still here).
gh
April 30th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Congratulations, Dingo!! Snarking is one thing, but parking (?) actually counts for something. Glad we did it!
calico
April 30th, 2007 at 9:15 am
#53 – Well, she does have the FoobBun®, after all. And a fairly good chalkboard presence – that made Jesse the Northern Indian Boyâ„¢ have a crush on her, until she crushed his child’s soul by pulling a runner from Mnblecktiwaggy.
Me Stop to write now.
Jamus The Bartender
April 30th, 2007 at 9:18 am
17. FOOB: Mumbles…is that the milkshake that brings all the boys to the yard, and that it’s “better than yours”, damn right?
ChefMike
April 30th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Blondie: I find it hard to believe that Blondie would know to go check on Dagwood while Daisy is howling at her as she’s preparing food in the kitchen. if it were me, I’d think the poor neglected animal just needed to be fed. I guess I should just count my blessings that the owners don’t read Daisy’s thoughts (as per “Garfield”) or worse yet, that Daisy speaks human (as in every strip featuring anthropomorphic animals)
FW: Aaaaaaand we’re back to Cancer.
MT: Suppose for a minute comics were audio enabled, and a soundtrack could be assigned, what might be playing in that last panel?
a.”Let’s Get it On” by Marvin Gaye
b.”Can’t Get enough of Your Love babe” by Barry White”
c.”Why Don’t We Get Drunk” by Jimmy Buffet
or d. “Muskrat Love” by Captain & Tenille
Zippy: I remember a Calvin & Hobbes strip years ago where Calvin randomly wonders “what if someone called us a pair of pathetic peripatetics?” and I thought that sort of a joke would be right at home in this particular strip. it also seems worthy to note, considering the small discussion about the overblown vocabulary words in Curtis from last week that there are some cases where big words can be used for great comic effect.
Archie: I really don’t think Jughead has anything to worry about. His bachelorhood is basically guaranteed as long as he keeps wearing that hat.
gh
April 30th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Only in FW would someone sticking needles in you be considered a good day.
Dingo
April 30th, 2007 at 9:33 am
By the hammer of Thor…!
Cherry stalls Mark’s plans with a kiss. Watch out, Cherry! When he figures out what you’re up to, that right hook o’ justice will set you straight! If only it could do the same for Mark…
Dingo
April 30th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Mary Worth: Purple pantsuit with slimming black shirt. Unmatching purse in ‘horse apple’ brown. Hair tied into ponytail to pull back sagging jaw line. Jungle Red© lipstick and brows plucked into a Nike swoosh. “Hello, my name is Vera and I’m a hag.” “Hello, Vera.”
Hogen Mogen
April 30th, 2007 at 9:42 am
A3G: Every time I read this strip, I keep fighting my indifference to… ..oh I give up. Indifference wins.
Hogen Mogen
April 30th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Vera Shields vs Margo McGee in a cage match. Yeh. Heh. Heh. Beavis, that would be world championship of cool.
Jamus The Bartender
April 30th, 2007 at 9:51 am
FOOB:Hmm…Candace changed her hair color, and now Candace and Liz are together…drinkin’ milkshakes….is that Indigo Girls playing in the background? Candace looks pretty hot too, at least by FOOB standards. Maybe Anthony isn’t the shoo-in we all thought he was.
Hogen Mogen
April 30th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Rex: Hugh is treating the titular protagonist with disdain, and for good reason. Rex is a shitty chauffer and Hugh is in a hurry. After demonstrating his inability to recall parking spaces, Rex will not exactly win sudden respect from the wealthy, golden haired heir by suddenly declaring that he’s not a real chauffer, but the former boss of his nemesis stepmother (who looks to be a decade younger than Hugh – who wouldn’t resent that?). “Oh, you’re a doctor, not a chauffer? Well, DOCTOR Moron, I hope for your patients’ sake that you remember your medical procedures better than you remember where the ^&*(##@! you put the goddamned car!”
Mumbles
April 30th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Sadly Jamus it looks like Liz has inherited her mother’s milkshake.
And what’s better with a milkshake than a cinnabun?
O’Fogeyette
April 30th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Congratulations to Starving Rock State Park and Dingo, its champion!
Hogen Mogen
April 30th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Sunday Mary Worth: A lot of people here don’t get that edition, it seems, so let me fill in the details of the enormous plot development that occurred over the weekend. None. The plot did not move one iota, and if you stopped reading on Friday and picked it up Monday, your life would be about 45 seconds richer.
Ok, well, I did like the blue/yellow Vera panel. I guess that somehow foreshadows Vera turning to the dark side. Mary’s ear is to her door, listening with glee to the argument in the hallway. “Exxxccellent. It is all going according to my plan… ”
Today: I loved the enraged, shaking fist of Vera, as she shouted madly at the closed door. Glad to see you’re over it, V.
Tomorrow:
Mary: Vera, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to Charterstone.
Vera: I’ll never join you. You killed my mother.
Mary: No. *I* am your mother!
Dingo
April 30th, 2007 at 10:12 am
#66 Jamus: Congratulations, my friend. You have written a comment that I, truly, believe to be COTW material. Today is Monday. We shall count down the days until next Sunday and see where you stand.
commodorejohn
April 30th, 2007 at 10:13 am
#66 – You know, I wouldn’t even consider that an option if it weren’t for Lynn’s continual “men are scum” diatribing. Still, as unusual as that would be (c’mon, Lynn, you had the first gay supporting character in the funnies, how about the first lesbian primary character?) I’m afraid the Loveocalypse is inevitable.
gh
April 30th, 2007 at 10:15 am
(DT)GT — I see they’ve propped up the cut out of the fluffy clouds against the horizon again, but it looks like some vandal got at them when they fell over – there are tire tracks all over them!
Jamus The Bartender
April 30th, 2007 at 10:16 am
68. Today’s Foob kinda reminds me of an old Onion article…just a picture actually…the caption was “GIrls Engage In Hot Lesbian Action” and the picture was this nice middle-forties lesbian couple.
gh
April 30th, 2007 at 10:21 am
TDIET —
Scaduto learns how to use a comma! Twice!
AhClem
April 30th, 2007 at 10:31 am
MT – See all those random people wandering the halls of Charterstone? They’re not people at all, but rather animated spybots. Mary has been monitoring the Von/Vera conversation at the bank of monitors in her basement command center, copiously taking notes. Soon, she will be putting the pedal to the meddle and shifting into high-octane biddyhood.
rich
April 30th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Wa wa wee wa! Some hot moves in today’s Mark Trail!
Leads me to wondering which sex tapes in comix-land might actually be worth viewing. Mark and Cherry would have to be high on the list. (Certainly not Ellie & John, Ted & Sally, Hi & Lois, Dag & Blondie, or Cathy & Irving.) Rex & June would make a pretty couple, sure, but I suspect we’d all find ourselves frustratingly shouting instructions to Dr. Clueless. “Clean her garage! Clean her garage!”
Others I might pay to see — Cedric & Angela, the 9CL dudes, Phantom & Mrs. Ghost Who Walks, Margo & Lucifer… oh, and Mallard Fillmore beating off to the latest tome by William F. Buckley!
AhClem
April 30th, 2007 at 10:39 am
#60 ChefMike -
“Muskrat Love” would be especially appropriate if there was a six-story muskrat looming over the LoFo compound while Mark and Cherry were making the beast with two backs.
Margo. Now that song is going to be stuck in my head the rest of the day.
Hogen Mogen
April 30th, 2007 at 11:44 am
#53 -Ribinin says: Which of these is Liz doing exactly? Even close to doing?
Obviously, she’s close to hooking up for good with mustache man. She’s moving out of the Patterson estate – hopefully for good – to live on her own. She’s had a real job – a teacher – that she’s going to continue (ie: not a summer job or something to pay the rent while you are searching for your career). She had a serious relationship with Paul the mountie, until Omnicient Evil Goddess Johnston heartlessly decreed that love can only be found with someone you grew up with (in many cultures, the goal is to marry first cousins together – ick – Lynn would fit right in). So, yeah, she’s not headed to the geriatric ward any time soon, but she’s certainly not a kid. That’s why her immature, preadolescent responses to Warren’s phone call and her mother were not funny and really quite sad. I was waiting for the strip to come up where she whines and cries because she has to finish her green beans before she’s allowed to have dessert.
Len
April 30th, 2007 at 11:46 am
#77 (rich) –
“Others I might pay to see — Cedric & Angela, the 9CL dudes, Phantom & Mrs. Ghost Who Walks, Margo & Lucifer… ”
By “9CL dudes,” I hope you don’t mean Edda and Amos. The sight of Amos approaching orgasm could put ANYONE off sex for life!
But the gay couple, Mark and Seth… (sigh!) Have they ever even shown them kissing?
Poteet
April 30th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
# 41 — BWAHAHA! Nice one, gh.
# 46 — Thanks, O’F, I do feel better now. No thanks to Foob. I’m sure many of us wish that the elderly passerby had whacked Liz hard on the head with her cane.
# 56 — Yea for Dingo and Starved Rock State Park and us, the snarky voters!
fizzy logic
April 30th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
#41 – gh – Loved it! Loved it! (If you can access YouTube, go find the version of My Generation by The Zimmers, the world’s oldest rock band. The lead singer is 90 years old. He’s a plugger. Alas, I can’t get YouTube here, so I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard he has very few teeth).
Thank you for the kind words in your later comment, too. Sending you a silent hug!
Hogen Mogen
April 30th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
#56 – Dingo – So do the signs say “Please don’t feed the rocks”?
Want absurd park names? Try Big Bone Lick in northern Kentucky. Woo-hoo!
Harold
April 30th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I don’t know which I’m prouder of: Getting to ride on the runners-up float tossing out snarkily ironic candy to the massed throng of fellow curmudgeons who line the parade route cheering us on, or being a part of Dingo’s victorious Starved Rock campaign! Woo-hoo!
And thank you to any North Carolinians who aided my friend with her e-mail campaign which I mentioned a few posts back. Sadly, the cause was lost before the effort began, but I believe a strong statement has been made, and it may have positive repercussions in the future.
alamo
April 30th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
hahahahaha!!
once again i was able to thwart josh’s cotw awards show. my cryptic, inscrutable comments went unnoticed as i planned. my consecutive streak of obscurity is intact.
oh yes, many attempt to be recognized. their search for celebrity and yea attention is endless and even for some demeaning i daresay.
more’s the challenge to offer such rare bits of wit, parody and satire and still be able to move about under josh’s thorough search for the ultimate cc comment and to avoid the gaze that ensnares one into his web of fame.
i shall continue to frustrate you josh!
hahahahaha!!!
Dub Not Dubya
May 1st, 2007 at 2:21 am
Yay, Dingo! And an early Happy Birthday wish to you as well. Also, re 83 Hogen Mogen, there’s a park in Virginia called Hungry Mother. Goes well with Starved Rock and Big Bone Lick, methinks.